Orson Scott Card Quotes

It is selfish to concern oneself with tragedies.

I look for good people and people that will be like-minded and help me try to do good for other human beings.

We all, as individuals, can and should act compassionately and charitably. We can volunteer our time, energy, and dollars to help the underprivileged. We can feed the hungry, house the homeless. Most of us feel a moral and ethical responsibility to do so - to 'do unto others.'

You don't need a reason to help people.

We all have the potential to show others love and affection, but as we progress in our materialistic world, these values tend to remain dormant. We can develop them on the basis of common sense, common experience and scientific findings. The response to the recent tragedy in the Philippines is an example of how such values are awakened; people helped simply because others are suffering and in need of support.

Compassion is the chief law of human existence.

Every kindness I received, small or big, convinced me that there could never be enough of it in our world... Kindness can change the lives of people.

While selfishness joins hands with no one of the virtues, benevolence is allied to them all.

Being good to people is the only insurance policy you need.

You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.

Anywhere I see suffering, that is where I want to be, doing what I can.

I believe that every human mind feels pleasure in doing good to another.

May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!

I was raised by my parents to believe that you had a moral obligation to try and help save the world.

One is guilty of all abjection that one does not help to relieve.

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

I love helping out good people who are doing good things.

We have to always hope in humanity that people will make the right choices.

You don't need a religious background to strive for something good, for genuine compassion and love for others.

Courage without compassion can wreak havoc on our civilization.

In our culture, the people who have the most respect are not those who have the most material possessions or those who have accomplished the most. It is the people who have helped others the most.

They charge me with fanaticism. If to be feelingly alive to the suffering of my fellow creatures is to be a fanatic, I am one of the most incurable fanatics ever permitted to be at large.

Love people, not things; use things, not people.

it is the personal and individual thing which is done by one human being for another that is the most valuable assistance which can be rendered in time of trouble. Better not only for the one who receives, but a thousand times happier for the one who gives.

I'm not someone who seeks out stories of people who are suffering. I think they just kind of find me.